Word: ingestible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a machine (or hardware), they have to buy programs (or software) that will enable the computer to perform the desired functions. The programs, which are mainly recorded on vinyl discs about the size of a 45 r.p.m. record, are instructions written in a mathematical code the machine can ingest...
...Illinois toxicologist: "People hear caffeine, and they think of a cup of coffee. You get between 50 mg and 100 mg in a cup of coffee. The people we're seeing using these drugs are taking ten to 20 pills at once." In other words, they can ingest the caffeine of dozens of cups of coffee in one gulp. In the past two years, look-alikes have been implicated in the deaths of at least 14 people in New York, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, California and Illinois...
BECAUSE TINTEROW'S selection process was deliberate and careful, the exhibition is easier to ingest than the MoMa show, which was ten times the size. Tinterow has successfully pared down Picasso's works on paper to a tight package, interesting to the giants of the art world, and intriguing to those who bring little previous knowledge of art to the Fogg. The exhibition is not one to be missed, and if the crowd of 1400 who came in out of the rain for the opening Thursday night is any indication, it will...
...department found that babies with no obvious exposure to such canned foods were coming down with the disease. C. botulinum bacteria are ubiquitous. They thrive in the earth and are spread as spores through dust in the air as well as on vegetables, fruits or in honey. Adults regularly ingest the microbes but customarily suffer no harm. The spores remain dormant in the adult intestine. For as yet unknown reasons, the intestines of some babies aged one to six months provide a hospitable environment for the spores, permitting them to germinate and make their deadly toxin. It is a nerve...
January 7. Today was a productive one for Shulamith and me. Working around the clock, we induced strangulation in a mouse. This was accomplished by coaxing the rodent to ingest healthy portions of Gouda cheese and then making it laugh. Predictably, the food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. Shulamith and I made voluminous notes on the experiment. If we can transfer the tailsnap procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell...